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tripodal, a.|ˈtrɪpədəl|
[f. L. tripod-, tripod + -al1.]
Of the form of, or pertaining to, a tripod; three-footed, three-legged (in quot. 1843, performed on three legs, i.e. with a staff to support one's steps: cf. Gr. τρίποδας ὁδούς, æsch. Agam. 80); Anat. having three rays or processes, as a bone. So, in same sense, tripodial |trɪˈpəʊdɪəl|, triˈpodian; tripodic |traɪˈpɒdɪk| (applied to a method of walking in some insects in which two legs on one side and one on the other move together), triˈpodical (in quot. 1643 fig. oracular, authoritative: cf. prec. A. 2).
1774T. West Antiq. Furness (1805) 10 The *tripodal copper vessel. 1843G. Wilson Let. in Life vii. (1860) 306 Yesterday I made a tripodal journey round the garden. 1872Coues N. Amer. Birds 23 This is a three-pronged or tripodal bone.
1845Birch in Classical Museum III. 418 Immediately before him is a *tripodial vessel or caldron.
1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) X. 252/2 The *tripodian lyre of Pythagoras. 1801Busby Dict. Mus. (1811), Tripodian, a stringed instrument, said to have been invented by Pythagoras the Zacynthian, which, on account of the difficulty of its performance, continued in use but for a short time. It resembled in form the Delphic Tripod, whence it had its name.
1891H. H. Dixon in Nature 8 Jan. 223/2, I have observed this ‘*tripodic’ walk in earwigs, water scorpions, aphides, and some beetles.
1643Howell Twelve Treat. (1661) 249 Judges..whose judgement in points of Law shold be onely *tripodicall and sterling. 1656Blount Glossogr., Tripodical, that hath three feet, three footed. 1850Ecclesiologist X. 179 A sort of tripodical shallow vessel. |